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Bluesky Social is a microblogging social platform being developed in conjunction with the decentralized AT Protocol. Previously invite-only, the flagship Beta app went public in February 2024. All are welcome!

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A COBOL programmer explains that this migration is impossible without catastrophe unless they want to destroy social security. (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

That would be too competent, since that's how real migrations work - you wrap COBOL in something that can integrate with more modern programming languages and replace it bit by bit, though hopefully not in JavaScript.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Yeah, use [Java, C, Assembly, PHP...] instead